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Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-13-399-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-13-399-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
Research article
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29 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2022

Design of a transrectal ultrasonic guided prostate low dose rate brachytherapy robot

Xuesong Dai, Yongde Zhang, Jingang Jiang, Bing Li, and Sihao Zuo

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Short summary
Transrectal prostate brachytherapy (BT) can effectively treat prostate cancer. During the operation, doctors need to hold the ultrasound probe for repeated adjustments, which makes it difficult to ensure the efficiency, accuracy, and safety of the operation. We designed an 11 DOF (degrees of freedom) active and passive transrectal BT robot based on the analysis of the transrectal prostate BT process.
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